Orbital data centres will make AI industry's environmental headaches far worse. Thoughts from me for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-ais-envi...

Why AI’s environmental footprint won’t disappear into orbit

Proposals to put data centres in space have many hidden costs.

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Proposals to put data centres in space have many hidden costs.

Why AI’s environmental footprint won’t disappear into orbit

Proposals to put data centres in space have many hidden costs.

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Myself and a stellar crew of contributors – @notnotrocketscience.com , @peterjhowson.bsky.social and William J Astore – unpacked what’s going on in space for the latest issue of the New Internationalist magazine: The New Space Race, For All Billionaire-kind.

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Orbital data centres will make AI industry's environmental headaches far worse. Thoughts from me for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-ais-envi...

Why AI’s environmental footprint won’t disappear into orbit

Proposals to put data centres in space have many hidden costs.

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👩🏽‍🚀 At the event we'll hear from astronomer and activist @notnotrocketscience.com , researchers @peterjhowson.bsky.social and @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social and from the Rio Grande, Texas, Juan Mancias and Christopher Basaldu of the Carrizo/Comecrudo nation.

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As billionaire tech titans turn space into their playground, the rest of us are getting left in the dust. Meanwhile, Earth’s skies fill with debris and the stratosphere is scorched by rockets. The lat...

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Urge the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to vote AGAINST renaming Boca Chica to “Cyber Beach”

URGENT! SpaceX fanatics want to rename our precious Boca Chica Beach to the disgusting “Cyber Beach.” We say NO! Call/email to urge the US Board on Geographic Names to vote no during their meeting o...

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At 2pm Texas time, Thursday 9 July, Musk fans plan to have Boca Chica, the spiritual heartland of the Estok Gna people, renamed "Cyber Beach" 😐. Feel free to let America's finest at USGS know what you think about that. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @rgs.org @geographers.bsky.social

At 2pm Texas time, Thursday 9 July, Musk fans plan to have Boca Chica, the spiritual heartland of the Estok Gna people, renamed "Cyber Beach" 😐. Feel free to let America's finest at USGS know what you think about that. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @rgs.org @geographers.bsky.social

OpenAI's promised £20 billion and 5,000 new jobs was "hypothetical". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment

Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical

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"My home is not your launch pad": How the global scramble for new space launch sites is impacting communities – from Indonesia to the Sámi homelands of Scandinavia. Part of the latest special issue from New Internationalist. Read my bit here 👇 peterhowson.org

"My home is not your launch pad": How the global scramble for new space launch sites is impacting communities – from Indonesia to the Sámi homelands of Scandinavia. Part of the latest special issue from New Internationalist. Read my bit here 👇 peterhowson.org

Awesome take from @adelepeters.bsky.social on the social & environmental impacts of the Orbital Data Centres proposed by #SpaceX, #Starcloud and others, for @fastcompany.com, with thoughts from me. www.fastcompany.com/91540754/the...

The environmental cost of putting data centers in space

SpaceX and startups like Starcloud want to put solar-powered data centers in orbit. There are challenges.

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Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Awesome take from @adelepeters.bsky.social on the social & environmental impacts of the Orbital Data Centres proposed by #SpaceX, #Starcloud and others, for @fastcompany.com, with thoughts from me. www.fastcompany.com/91540754/the...

The environmental cost of putting data centers in space

SpaceX and startups like Starcloud want to put solar-powered data centers in orbit. There are challenges.

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Timmy the humpback whale presumed dead after being "rescued" by billionaires and released into shipping lane. #MoveFastAndBreakThings 😒 www.euronews.com/2026/05/06/t...

Data centres in space will ruin everything! Smashing article here says so 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Extra terra nullius: Off-worlding the externalities of AI, Bitcoin mining and cloud computing with Orbital Data Centres

Despite ambitious carbon neutrality targets from Big Tech companies like Google, the rapid global proliferation of generative Artificial Intelligence …

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Data centres in space will ruin everything! Smashing article here says so 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Extra terra nullius: Off-worlding the externalities of AI, Bitcoin mining and cloud computing with Orbital Data Centres

Despite ambitious carbon neutrality targets from Big Tech companies like Google, the rapid global proliferation of generative Artificial Intelligence …

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Vessels fired at in Strait of Hormuz after crews fall victim to Bitcoin phishing scam. Welcome to Cryptoland. bsky.app/profile/pete...

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"Crypto is a symptom of desperation, not innovation". Thoughts from me on #Iran #Bitcoin toll-booth in Strait of #Hormuz for @uk.theconversation.com @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social theconversation.com/crypto-tolls...

"Crypto is a symptom of desperation, not innovation". Thoughts from me on #Iran #Bitcoin toll-booth in Strait of #Hormuz for @uk.theconversation.com @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social theconversation.com/crypto-tolls...

Crypto tolls in the Strait of Hormuz shows why bitcoin thrives in times of crisis

But implementing a bitcoin-based toll system will be difficult without US approval.

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Neither Elon Musk nor Sam Altman have a PhD. Surely evidence enough that you don't need one!? Hard Times Have Come For The PhD Degree share.google/WjCZ6AFM0zpH...

Hard Times Have Come For The PhD Degree

Long considered the pinnacle of academic achievement, the PhD is now facing strong headwinds, including reduced federal support for jobs, research and graduate training.

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This time it's NY Trump donor billionaire Bill Ackman's turn to be a wonderful human after signing Bill Gates' #TheGivingPledge 🥹. He could have saved 10,000 kids from malaria! Or could fund Rene Good's ICE killer 🤗. We need to tax billionaires.

The auto predict in my brain thought for a second he'd donated money to help defeat cancer. Then I remembered he's a massive c**t.

STEM is a jazz hands technique for pinching stuff from poor people!!! 💫 New paper! FREE for you! #NewSpace #SpaceX www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Pick up your very own copy of Let Them Eat Crypto for just £7!!! @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/product/let-...

Such good guys. ❤️‍🔥

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Interested in space and environmental justice? Fancy a meet-up in Barcelona this summer? 🚀🛰️👩‍🚀 #NewSpace #SpaceX #PoliticalEcology @pollenetwork.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mxhef7j

In no way should it take a UN body to issue a report for people to accept this, *but* this does clearly does help get the normies activated and aware (particularly when published on an outlet like the ABC). Send it around! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major UN report finds

Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date.

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